Seminar 20th August: UCSD Students present Outcomes of PRIME Projects 2009

Five students from UCSD who have been visiting Monash since end June will give brief reports on their projects via HD Video to mentors in the US

Time: Thursday 20th August 10-11am

Place: Seminar Room 135, Building 26 Clayton

Presenters: UCSD Students under PRIME research exchange program

Elisa Abate, bioengineering: premedical. This project involves enhancement and use of a framework being designed for ligand-protein investigations. Using computational chemistry software of Prof. Baldridge and the workflow tools of Prof. Abramson, the goal will be to do several parametric experiments to investigate changes in structure, environment, and methodology, and record the results for further analysis. Mentors: David Abramson;UCSD: Kim Baldridge

Ramya Chitters, bioengineering-biotechnology. The goal of Ramya’s project is to use NIMROD/E, (novel NIMROD grid computing technologies for experimental design that allows for rapid evaluation of parameter sensitivities in complex computational models), to examine which model parameters play the largest role in determining specific model outputs (Ca transients in the cell sub-domains and AP) in endocardial ventricular cardiac cells. Mentors: David Abramson ;UCSD: Anushka Michailova

Nicholas Echols, computer science, interdisciplinary computing and the arts (ICAM). The goal of the project is to create a viewing interface on the tiled-display wall for both 2-D images and 3-D image stacks acquired from the confocal microscope at Monash University, as well as any other image or set of images desired. This interface will visually act as a two dimensional plane along which the images can be moved, rotated, scaled, tiled and viewed as a slide show. The interface will also provide grouping functions to help organize images and gesture-based interaction using devices such as the WiiMote. Mentors: David Abramson; UCSD: Jürgen Schulze

Scott Revelli, bioengineering. This project's goal is to determine the location of the leads, for biventricular pacing a failing heart with left bundle branch block, which will produce the optimal cardiac performance. This task was pursued though the use of Continuity 6, a finite element modeling program designed by UCSD’s Cardiac Mechanics Research Group for modeling biological systems and through the employment of Nimrod, a parametric modeling system, designed and devolved by David Abramson and his colleagues at the Message Lab, Monash University

Adi Singer, computer science. The project will utilize the tiled-display walls at Monash University to create a 3-D geographic model allowing users to view and interact with existing city buildings and terrain. Useful for scientific research in various fields, such as geography and natural disasters. OpenSceneGraph software will be used to generate virtual models in the visualization environment COVISE using LIDAR point clouds and other formats of three dimensional city data. Mentors: David Abramson; UCSD: Jürgen Schulze

Note about PRIME

PRIME leverages the scientific community and cyberinfrastructure built by the Pacific Rim Applications and Grid Middleware Assembly (PRAGMA) project. PRAGMA is a group of leading Pacific Rim research organizations collaborating on advancing grid technology applications. The PRIME students have been part of the Message Lab team whilst at Monash (www.messagelab.monash.edu.au)

Monash Contact: Rob Gray, Message Lab, 03 99031249 and 0411022041